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Animal Spirits Talk Your Book: The Man Who Solved the Markets

The Irrelevant Investor

“I don’t know why planets orbit the sun,” Simons told a colleague, suggesting one needn’t spend too much time figuring out why the market’s patterns existed. “That doesn’t mean I can’t predict them.” On today's show we discuss: - The Man Who Solved the Market -Medallion's OddStats -How Simons built the greatest money making machine of all-time -How much you would invest in the Medallion fund if it was opened to you, and much more Listen here The post Animal Spirits Talk Your Book: The Man Who So

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Let the Halo effect not take over your finances!

Truemind Capital

🔊 Play Audio. How often is that you chose someone for a particular task just because he is nice and end up making a bad choice? This is the phenomenon of Halo effect where one attribute of a person overshadows the other attributes and influences the decisions we take. The attribute niceness of your partner has overshadowed the other essential attributes like competence and intelligence.

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Forum of Executive Women: Champion of Board Diversity

SEI

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“Should We Be Selling Short?”

The Irrelevant Investor

In December 2018, with the stock market in its deepest drawdown of the decade, Jim Simons turned to one of his financial advisors for help. Should we be selling short?” Simons asked. Chhabra hesitated, suggesting that they avoid acting until the market had calmed, a course of action Simons agreed to follow. A day later, stocks firmed. The collapse was over.

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Are Robots Replacing You? Keeping Humans in the Loop in Automated Environments

Speaker: Erroll Amacker

As businesses increasingly adopt automation, finance leaders must navigate the delicate balance between technology and human expertise. This webinar explores the critical role of human oversight in accounts payable (AP) automation and how a people-centric approach can drive better financial performance. Join us for an insightful discussion on how integrating human expertise into automated workflows enhances decision-making, reduces fraud risks, strengthens vendor relationships, and accelerates R

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These Are the Goods

The Irrelevant Investor

Articles The expectation of bad news weighs more heavily on our psyche than the actual bad news when it arrives By Drew Dickson Total return isn’t just a concept; it’s also a technology By Jason Zweig Data isn’t everything By Nick Maggiulli If we all followed our dreams when it came to our career path nothing would ever get done By Ben Carlson My question was promptly greeted crickets and awkward blank stares as a cloud of general discomfort filled the room By Doug Boneparth Podcasts Why and how

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Guru Grades

The Irrelevant Investor

"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."* Everybody is familiar with this quote from Irving Fisher, which appeared on the front cover of the New York Times on October 16th, 1929. This will live on forever because just eight trading sessions later, the Dow crashed 13.47%. The following day it fell another 11.73%. That permanently high plateau would not be seen again until the winter of 1954.